Espionage & Secret Services

Better to fight for something than live for nothing. General George S. PattonIt is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious dea...

What is intelligence why is it so hard to define, and why is there no systematic theory of intelligence? Classic intelligence analysis is based on...

As Katherine Verdery observes, There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are. In 1973 Verdery began he...

From the far-flung battlefields of Europe and Asia to the famous naval encounters on the high seas, the global conflict between Britain and Revolut...

Early in the morning of 18 May 1942, three Dutchmen were captured in the North Sea and taken to MI5. It soon became clear that one in particular, J...

Kandahar. An ancient desert crossroads, and as of fall of 2001, ground zero for the Taliban and al-Qaida in southern Afghanistan. In the north, the...

The Secret War marks a new direction in the cultural history and theory of intelligence gathering and state secrecy in the twentieth and early twen...

Tells the fist person story of Verne Lyon, an Iowa farm boy away at college who is inducted into the CIA to spy on his professors and fellow studen...

In the eighty years since Pearl Harbor, the United States has developed a professional intelligence community that is far more effective than most ...

Initially stationed at the U.S. Army's counterintelligence headquarters in Saigon, David Noble was sent north to launch the army's first covert int...

Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and sho...

The astonishing true story of how the CIA, MI6 and a Soviet defector saved the world in 1962, as told in the new film, The Courier, starring Benedi...

In this remarkable tale Nick Barratt delves into the shadows of the British and Soviet secret services to reveal the shocking story of his great un...

Hes out of options. Kill. Or be killed. A searing thriller that will leave you reelingDisgraced Navy SEAL Finn is on the run.A wanted man, hes soug...

X' Section of S.O.2, a part of the Ministry of Economic Warfare, was formed in November 1940. Just two months later it came under the command of Ma...

LIONEL BUSTER CRABB was a drinker, a gambler, a womaniser and a lover of fast cars and gadgets. On top of all that, he was a spy, an acquaintance o...

He was the son of a hereditary peer, one of the wealthiest men in Britain. His childhood was privileged; at Cambridge, he flourished. At the age of...

Odette Brailly entered the nation's consciousness in the 1950s when her remarkable - and romantic - exploits as an SOE agent first came to light. S...

This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. Ther...

IN this compelling investigation, author Michael Smith explores the critical moment in a spy''s life: that split-second decision to embrace a doubl...